A full weekend of high medieval tournament befitting nobility drew kings, squires, lords and ladies to the Bungendore Showground – proof that chivalry is far from dead.

With sun beating down on their heavy armour, combatants tested their mettle in a range of skills at arms including jousting, archery and armoured foot combat at the Fields of Gold tournament, hosted by The Barony of Politarchopolis

The clash of steel earned gasps and groans from the hundreds of spectators at the tournament.

This extraordinary world of history come-to-life is well-known to Claudia Linder who travelled from Adelaide to compete.

Known within the Australian and New Zealand Kingdom of Lochac as Baroness Eva Von Danzig, she is just one of the more than 30,000 members who participate in Society for Creative Anachronism across the 19 kingdoms of the "known world".